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Show Always Been Tlwt Way There have been bad major league ball clubs this season, and many rather sour big league ball players. But this has happened since Uncle Abner Doubleday had his dream. The Phillies, in last place, are a far better bunch than the tail-end Phillies of years we still remember. And I could give you the names of many other clubs in the past that were strictly moth-eaten, of many other ball players who were not even good minor leaguers. To listen, and to read, yon might think at times there were no good i ball players left. What about Harry Walker, Williams, Joe DiMaggio, 1 Pee Wee Reese, Ed Stanky, Pete Reiser, Mize, Willard Marshall most of the Cardinals Cooper, Gordon, Gor-don, Bob Feller, Tommy Henrich, Augie Galan, Bob Elliott, George Kell, Grady Hatton, Johnny Sain, Warren Spahn and many more who would have been good in any past baseball season? It is pleasant for those growing older to look back on the glories of the past when they, too, were young. But they overlook one major point that practically every athletic achievement that can be timed or measured has known a long run of broken records. |